General movie thread!!!!

[Gfted1]

I watched Mortal Kombat too and imo, the first 7 minutes are the best part of the movie. The rest was fine, just meh. I did lol hard at

Jax's dinky little metal arms before he transformed.

[LadyCrimson]

4 hours ago, Gfted1 said:

I watched Mortal Kombat too and imo, the first 7 minutes are the best part of the movie.

Going to agree.  And I also laughed at that one spot/thing, haha. 

Some of the fights were ok, but it has the issue of many of these films with mostly terrible acting - but where it's not actually terrible/cheesy enough to be hilarious.
The fight at the main guy's house and the last sub zero fight were fairly fun to watch.  I'm a little unclear what the main dude's power was tho - really good armor/ability to take hits and form little swords under his forearms.  Was that it? The red glows in the armor just indicate the suit absorbing the damage? But then everyone should've just gone for his head, right?

Edited April 27, 2021 by LadyCrimson

[Maedhros]

Yeah the main character and his abilities were the least interesting thing about this film.

[Hurlshort]

He got beat up on all film, and then he got armor that let him get beat up on. Seemed reasonable to me. He was very good as an actor and in the action, I thought. His fight with Goro was great.

[Gfted1]

1 hour ago, LadyCrimson said:

I'm a little unclear what the main dude's power was tho - really good armor/ability to take hits and form little swords under his forearms.  Was that it? The red glows in the armor just indicate the suit absorbing the damage?

I wasnt quite sure either so I just checked and youre spot on: Cole Young

This transition in fighting style is aided by his arcana, which manifests as a kind of extremely durable metal skin which can absorb the kinetic energy of his opponent’s strikes to empower his own blows and which can also generate weapons in the form of both normal and bladed tonfas from his arms.

[LadyCrimson]

Ah, ok. So not *just* absorb/prevent damage but also transfers at least some of that energy back into his own attacks, giving him more melee powah too.  Makes sense.

I'd still have aimed for his head tho. 

[Sarex]

That's what the arms are for.

[Raithe]

Caught "The Losers" on Amazon Prime.

An interesting one, actually an adaption of a DC universe comic series of the same name from back in 2010.

But the cast... Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the commanding officer of a bunch of special forces loaned out to the CIA, which include Chris Evans. Idris Elba, Columbus Short, and Oscar Jaenada.  Things happen, they get burned by big, bad CIA masterspook (Jason Patric), framed and presumed dead,  and end up working with Zoe Saldana's mysterious femme fatale to get back to the US and payback.

None of it's too new or unique, but it gels well, the chemistry between the cast is rock solid, and they all seem to have a lot of fun.

Guns, cars, bikes, knives, explosions, some girls, and some significant scenery chewing at times.

[Amentep]

Max: "What the hell was that...?"

Wade: "You gave me the nod."

Max: "A 'hit him in the face nod' not a 'throw him off the roof nod'."

Wade: "I thought that was what you wanted."

Max: "At most, at most, that was a 'break his fingers nod'. Jesus Wade, the man was a scientific genius.  Granted his weight signaled certain impulse control issues but...that's no reason to throw his fat ass off 57 floors."

Wade: "I'm sorry."

I thought THE LOSERS was underappreciated.  Finger guns was fun too.

[Gromnir]

2 hours ago, Amentep said:

Max: "What the hell was that...?"

Wade: "You gave me the nod."

Max: "A 'hit him in the face nod' not a 'throw him off the roof nod'."

Wade: "I thought that was what you wanted."

Max: "At most, at most, that was a 'break his fingers nod'. Jesus Wade, the man was a scientific genius.  Granted his weight signaled certain impulse control issues but...that's no reason to throw his fat ass off 57 floors."

Wade: "I'm sorry."

I thought THE LOSERS was underappreciated.  Finger guns was fun too.

up until knives out, "skippy from tech support" were probable our favorite chris evan role. admitted, this is not much o' a compliment, but we still can't hear, journey's "don't stop believing'" w/o thinking losers and skippy.

added scene for those with no plans to ever see losers.

Spoiler

 

HA! Good Fun!

 

 

Edited April 27, 2021 by Gromnir

[Raithe]

 

Ah, Statham and Ritchie together again...

[Keyrock]

1 hour ago, Raithe said:

 

Ah, Statham and Ritchie together again...

See Jason Statham as you've never seen him before as man really good at killing people!

All joking aside, Snatch is one of my favorite movies, so I'm more excited for this than most Jason Statham kills people movies.

[LadyCrimson]

I really liked Mr. Statham in the first Transporter which is where I first saw him.  He did fine in Cellular (a movie I enjoyed more than most, probably...).  I barely remember Transporter2 although I did see it.  I guess he was in Expendables.  I think I saw and at least moderately liked Homefront but I don't remember clearly (not necessarily the movie's fault, my memory just gets worse every year).

...I'm not sure I've seen any of his other movies.  None interested me after Transporter2 was "eh" and he seemed to become a meme more than anything else, like Norris or older/action-y Bruce Wilis. That said, this one looks a little more in my mindless action-y wheelhouse and I like Holt McCallany a fair bit, so I might check it out.

[Keyrock]

I already mentioned Snatch, but I also liked Jason Statham in the Crank movies and I like the first Transporter movie well enough. Every other movie I've seen him in he might as well be the transporter.

[Raithe]

I think what always amuses me with Statham is that one of the key reasons he go the first role in Lock Stock, was because he had ended up being a London street vendor/black market salesman to make ends meet, and had managed to sell things to Ritchie.

It's one of those weird things. He got paid basically £5,000 for that first acting role. Then £15,000 for his role in Snatch.

Then he went to Hollywood.

[Keyrock]

I'm assuming Mr. Statham got paid slightly more than £15,000 for this. 

[Keyrock]

I got myself a birthday present:

It's mostly 70s and 80s Hong Kong wuxia cinema with a handful of blaxploitation movies thrown in for whatever reason (I'm certainly not complaining). This is exactly my kind of cheese, fake Bruce Lee clones and all. 

[Gfted1]

Happy Birthday!!!!

[Sarex]

Happy Birthday!

[Amentep]

3 hours ago, Keyrock said:

I got myself a birthday present:

It's mostly 70s and 80s Hong Kong wuxia cinema with a handful of blaxploitation movies thrown in for whatever reason (I'm certainly not complaining). This is exactly my kind of cheese, fake Bruce Lee clones and all. 

80s Italian Blaxploitation films at that. But I'm not sure why they left off the fourth Black Cobra film...

Happy Birthday!

[Gromnir]

3 hours ago, Keyrock said:

I got myself a birthday present:

mage

It's mostly 70s and 80s Hong Kong wuxia cinema with a handful of blaxploitation movies thrown in for whatever reason (I'm certainly not complaining). This is exactly my kind of cheese, fake Bruce Lee clones and all. 

tough part is even at twelve discs, you probable still gotta go out and buy five deadly venoms. 

HA! Good Fun!

[ShadySands]

I still always think of this when it comes to Jason Statham

 

Edited April 30, 2021 by ShadySands
Happy birthday!

[Keyrock]

3 minutes ago, Gromnir said:

tough part is even at twelve discs, you probable still gotta go out and buy five deadly venoms. 

HA! Good Fun!

For all-time classics like Five Deadly Venoms, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (greatest training montage movie ever), and The Legend of the Drunken Master, I'm quite happy to buy an individual copy for each of those, plus I'll see if high quality 4K Blu-Ray transfers exist.

[Raithe]

[Keyrock]

Whatever happened to the... 4? ... 5? Avatar sequels James Cameron was going to make? It's a weird thing, when Avatar first came out I was very much in the minority of not liking the movie. I didn't hate it, I thought it was pretty meh with a dumb as **** plot and while the visuals were cool for the time, they didn't make me blow a load in my pants like they did for seemingly most other people. As time has passed, I think more and more people have come around to my side of "Avatar was stupid". Is there still an audience that really wants these sequels to happen?